Soon we are heading into desperate table conversations, diners in restaurant cars, the French aristocracy at dinner, and scenes: ham, turkey and beef roasts, coffee being enjoyed.
Then there are several scenes from workhouse life, poverty and working people eating, followed by children's scenes of all classes.

Towards the last third of the book we have hundreds of images of foodstuffs, utensils, animals, vegetables, desserts, and then wine, drinking and ale consumption from the middle ages to the Victorian period.